13 AND 15, HAWKSMILL STREET (See details for further address information)

NEEDHAM MARKET HAWKSMILL STREET TM 0855

3/58 Nos.13 and 15 and part of No.11 9.12.55 II

Two houses and part of another. Built C15 as one house of 3-cell half-H plan form. Subdivided into 3 tenements in C19, and at one time The Queens Head Inn. No.13, of one storey with attics, comprises a former open hall. Nos.11 and 15 comprise jettied wings of 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered. Plaintiled roofs with axial and external chimneys of red brick and a massive C17 hall chimney of gault brick. One C20 flat-roofed dormer. Late C19 sashes with large panes at ground storey. C18 casement with leaded lights at 1st storey of No.11; a C19 small pane sash at No.15. C19 and C20 6-panelled entrance doors. No.13 comprises a single-bay open hall with smoke-encrusted coupled-rafter roof. The cross-wing now containing No.15 has the cross- passage entrance; part of the 2-centred arched front door remains, blocked. Plain framing and coupled-rafter roof. A large C16/C17 open fireplace was inserted into the hall, backing onto the cross-passage; an upper floor was also inserted into the hall in C17. The second cross-wing (now part of No.11) was reroofed in C16/C17 parallel to the street, giving the false impression that it is structurally part of that house.

Listing NGR: TM0875755294